I get the following error message:
xargs: grep: Argument list too long
I've also gotten an equivalent error from xargs/gawk.
Of course, the whole idea of xargs is to avoid this error. If I'm doing
something wrong, I'd appreciate some hints of what I am doing wrong or
how to avoid this (other than "-s"). Otherwise, I suppose that this is
a bug report.
The grep pipe, run under bash, that generates the error message is as
follows:
$ echo path/* | \
tr ' ' '\n' | \
grep -v -e '\*' | \
xargs -r grep -l -e "error '1234567890'" | \
rest_of_pipe
Asking xargs to report on its limits:
$ echo path/* | \
tr ' ' '\n' | \
xargs --show-limits grep -e I_do_not_want_output
Your environment variables take up 2174 bytes
POSIX lower and upper limits on argument length: 2048, 1046528
Maximum length of command we could actually use: 1044354
Size of command buffer we are actually using: 34942
Everything should be up to date. cygcheck.out is attached. Let me know
if you want any other information.
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